When comparing Alfred vs IntelliJ IDEA, the Slant community recommends Alfred for most people. In the question“What are the best power user tools for macOS?”Alfred is ranked 4th while IntelliJ IDEA is ranked 39th. The most important reason people chose Alfred is:

Quickly search for files, applications and web services from the same input.

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Auto CompleteYes

Bracket MatchingYes

Code TemplatesYes

Cross PlatformYes

Integrated DebuggerYes

Multi Language SupportYes

PlatformsWindows, macOS, Linux

PriceUS $ 499. 00-US $ 649. 00 year

Source Control IntegrationYes

Very intuitive shortcuts and shortcut managementContains new ideas for boosting productivity

Pro

Entry of everything

Pro

Integrates with 1Password

Pro

Allows theming

Alfred allows adjusting colors, fonts, sizes and more to create new themes.

Pro

Clipboard history

Alfred offers a clipboard with an extensive history for quick access to your copied text, images and links.

Pro

Lightweight and smooth

Alfred is a lightweight application for OS X and runs smoothly, even on older devices.

Pro

Productivity booster

Helps speed up your working day one shortcut at a time.

Pro

Offers both a free version and a paid version available

The paid version is more customizable, but the free version is still very powerful.

Pro

Smart refactorings

IDEA places an emphasis in safe refactoring, offering a variety of features to make this possible for a variety of languages.These features include safe delete, type migration and replacing method code duplicates.

Con

Somewhat expensive

Con

Slow startup

Startup can be slow deepending on system configuration

Con

Uses too much RAM

Con

Standard hotkeys behave differently

Seems like hotkeys assignment in Idea has no logical consistency.

Like «F3» is usually next match, «Ctrl+W» - close tab, etc — they map to some different action by default.There is a good effort in making the IDE friendly for immigrants from other products: there are options to use hotkeys from Eclipse, and even emacs. But these mappings are very incomplete. And help pages do not take this remapping into account, rather mentioning the standard hotkeys.

So, people coming from other IDEs/editors are doomed to using mouse and context menus (which are rather big and complex).

Con

Bugs are not solved as often as they should

They are more interested in adding new features or issuing new versions than solving bugs.

Con

Cannot open multiple projects in the same window

Con

Built with closed source components

The version with full features is not opensource. Parts of the code are under apache licence though.

Con

Lack of plugins

IntelliJ supports a very small amount of plugins. Although these are 'quality approved', many features are missing and can't be implemented because of that.

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